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A Modest Proposal is a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift written in 1729. It's a social commentary on British society's treatment of the poor. Saying more than this would be a spoiler! Please enjoy this unabridged and crisply narrated rendition of Swift's greatest work.

Bill Unwin, an academic of dubious status, has never recovered from the death of his famous actress wife and is now convalescing from a recent brush with his own mortality. He has two tales to tell. One, spanning postwar Paris, 1950s Soho and contemporary sexual and scholarly entanglements, surveys the muddle of his own life. The other, drawn from the notebooks of a Victorian ancestor, is the very different story of Matthew Pearce, a serious-minded man whose happiness is destroyed by his compulsive search for truth.

On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton—former Devon farmer, now proprietor of a seaside caravan park—receives the news that his brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife Ellie, this will have a potentially catastrophic impact and compel Jack to make a crucial journey: to receive his brother’s remains, but also to return to the land of his past and confront his most secret, troubling memories.

Celtic Poets breathes vitality into the works of Swift, Burns, Wilde, and more. Cosham's finely honed delivery brings verdant valleys, quaint villages, and drunkards' and maidens' conversations to listeners' ears. What is not to love?

Gulliver’s Travels takes listeners on an adventure to fictional and real places in the world, with fantastical elements such as a society of tiny people, flying cities, and the ghosts of ancient world leaders. Gulliver’s adventure takes him all over, and each location is uniquely themed and satirizes themes from our real world.

In one of the most well-known works of satire, Jonathan Swift puts forth a “modest proposal”. Swift begins by outlining the suffering that the starving beggars in Ireland experience daily. He paints a grim picture of the plight these people face to help the listener relate to the situation before turning the tables and suggesting that to alleviate the economic troubles of the poor, their children could be sold as food to the upper class. The shock from this sudden change is expounded by Swift’s continued explanation of the proposal.

Billions of dollars of property stolen by the Nazis and their sympathizers in the mid 1940s still lie secretly hidden, in Europe and Latin America. Hail to the Chief is a spine-chilling story of the race to find it, as extremists from the West and Middle East conspire together to create a Fourth Reich and a world caliphate.

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Resurrection Lutheran Academy is a small private Lutheran School in South Bend, IN. As the school celebrates its 25th academic year, we want to talk about how God has brought to this point in this ministry. We will be talking with many key stakeholders to get different preceptive on how RLA has served and will serve the community.

Welcome to Growing & Glowing - my name is Elle, and this is our safe space to delve into all topics of life-learnings there may be, from self-love, motherhood, grief, spirituality, friendship & so much more. I hope you're as excited as I am to talk about life on a much deeper level than we do in my YouTube videos. Growing & Glowing is here to provide you with a friend through the very up & down journey that is growing and glowing into the very best version of who YOU truly are! New episodes will be uploaded every Monday so be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify & YouTube. For some ...

This boxset includes Ra-Kit's Initiation (A Prequel), Dominion Over All, Endangered, Ghost Elephant, and Junkyard Dogs.

The importance of small things in a world dominated by great size is illustrated in this real-life story of a lighthouse on the shores of the Hudson River.

Life is a constant tug-of-war between opposing forces—work and family, ambition and balance, logic and emotion. In Tug-of-War: The Philosophy of T.O.W, Leo Swift reimagines this childhood game as a metaphor for resolving life’s conflicts. Through personal stories, vivid anecdotes, and practical strategies, Swift presents a transformative framework for turning struggle into collaboration. The journey begins by exploring the core concept of T.O.W., illustrating how conflicts, both internal and external, shape our decisions and relationships.

If Glow Up started your journey, Glow Up 2 takes it further—into the heart of self-love, purpose, and growth. This is not just a sequel. It is a deeper guide for teen girls ready to embrace their values, passions, and power—even when life gets messy.

In From the Ground Up: A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America (2019), Howard Schultz examines how his upbringing in a working class New York family influenced his actions when he became chairman and CEO of Starbucks. Schultz uses his eventual professional success to argue that the United States still can be a land of opportunity if those with means are willing to give chances and resources to those without.

This Is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See (2018) teaches people how to promote products that are tailored for specific segments of society. Author and entrepreneur Seth Godin explains that businesses and individual marketers often make the mistake of drumming up sales by hyping plentiful but substandard wares.... Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

Esta obra se ha grabado en su versión original, con mínimas adaptaciones. Cada viaje de Gulliver comienza con una tormenta y trae nuevas perspectivas a la vida de Gulliver pero sobre todo nuevas oportunidades para ridiculizar y reírse de la forma en la que vivía la sociedad de su época en Inglaterra.

Prentis, employed in the police archives, is becoming confused. His obsession with the plight of his father, a wartime hero, now the mute inmate of a mental hospital, is alienating him from his wife and children, while at work, he feels under scrutiny from his intimidating boss, Quinn. Gradually, Prentis suspects that his father’s breakdown and Quinn’s menacing behaviour are related and that the connection is to be found in his father’s memoir: 'Shuttlecock'.

In der faszinierenden Welt der Abenteuerliteratur entfalten sich Geschichten voller Entdeckergeist und Sehnsucht nach Freiheit, jede Erzählung nimmt die Hörer:innen mit auf eine packende Reise. Eine Hörbuchbox voller Abenteuerlust, spannend und mitreißend interpretiert von Rufus Beck, Max Urlacher, Hans-Helmut Dickow u.v.a.